Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866

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Contentious Liberties race in the atlantic world, – series editors Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst advisory board Edward Baptist, Cornell University Christopher Brown, Columbia University Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland Laurent Dubois, Duke University Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne College Leslie Harris, Emory University Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver Erik Seeman, State University of New York, Buffalo John Stauffer, Harvard University Contentious Liberties American Abolitionists in Post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834–1866 Gale L. Kenny The University of Georgia Press Athens and London © 2010 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in 11/14 Adobe Garamond Pro by BookComp, Inc. Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kenny, Gale L., 1979– Contentious liberties : American abolitionists in post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834–1866 / Gale L. Kenny. p. cm. — (Race in the Atlantic world, 1700–1900) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3399-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8203-3399-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Antislavery movements—Jamaica—History—19th century. 2. Antislavery movements—United States—History—19th century. 3. Abolitionists—United States—History—19th century. 4. Liberty—History—19th century. 5. Jamaica—Social conditions. I. Title. E449.K374 2010 972.92'04—dc22 2009039133 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4197-2 For my family This page intentionally left blank ...